Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit at TU Dublin

Technological University Dublin together with @NTUTORR, hosted the Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit at @TUDublin's Grangegorman campus on 18 June 2024. The event convened over 100 senior leaders and teaching staff from higher education institutions in Ireland to discuss the important role that higher education plays in addressing climate change through action.
A panel of speakers set the stage by discussing how higher education can be a leader of behaviour change for both the public sector and the communities which we serve, as well as highlighting the social, economic, and institutional barriers to taking effective and inclusive climate action. In the afternoon, participants attended thematic breakout sessions to discuss, in detail, effective strategies and best practice for decarbonising the campus environment; green public procurement; behaviour change; as well as embedding sustainability in the curriculum. Minister Ossian Smyth TD, Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications addressed the group highlighting the crucial need to support the development of solution-orientated skills and competencies among graduates, as well as implementing effective policies to accelerate the transition towards a carbon neutral society. The Summit also addressed the lessons learned and questions raised during the Climate Action Leadership Training, which has been rolled out across the Higher Education sector as set out in the Public Sector Mandate.
To close the event, Environmental Journalist John Gibbons delivered the Keynote speech, and challenged the group to consider their roles as higher education leaders to instil pro-environmental action within our institutions, and to push forward effective action to tackle the climate crisis.
The Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit was supported by the National Technological University Transformation for Recovery and Resilience project (N-TUTORR).
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